Did you know that the TV show 'Friday Night Lights' was filmed in Austin? As soon as I found out that you could drive around and see some of the places they used in the show I was super excited and added it to our to-do list while in Austin. Alex and I had watched the series together on Netflix a few years ago, and definitely consider it one of our favorites. We've even
(half) joked that Tim Riggins Aggen has a nice ring to it for naming future children, and ever since we found out that we'll be in Austin for the summer have overused the phrase "Texas Forever" throughout our daily conversations. Also, can we just talk about Matt Saracen - anyone else want to adopt the kid and help him out with his grandmother like we do? Anyways....
The weather forecast called for rain one afternoon (it's been raining like crazy in Central Texas this year), so I thought it would be a great activity to do since we would just be in our car the whole time. Turns out that it ended up being sunny and hot during our entire drive! We got the list of addresses to go to online and unfortunately didn't make it to all of them (like the Panther Field House or Tim Riggin's land), but we still had fun driving around and exploring different parts of Austin.
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| The Saracen House |
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| The Taylors, or better known as Coach and Mrs. Coach's lovely house. It surprised us that this house is actually situated in a tiny cul-de-sac. |
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| Riggins House- just around the corner from the real-life Taylor House. And the card I'm holding up? There's a funny story behind that. Feel free to ask me about it. |
Other places we drove by but didn't take pictures of were:
- East Dillon Football Field
- The Landing Strip (which is actually a strip club in real life, gross.)
- Ray's BBQ (which is now a tire shop)
- The Alamo Freeze (which wasn't there, but instead was torn down and is now a Dairy Queen! We stopped and got ice cream there, and Addie loved her vanilla baby cone)
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